Whiteichthys

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Whiteichthys
Temporal range: Tournaisian [1]
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Palaeonisciformes
Genus: Whiteichthys
Moy-Thomas, 1942
Species:
W. greenlandicus
Binomial name
Whiteichthys greenlandicus
Moy-Thomas, 1942

Whiteichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Tournaisian age of the Mississippian epoch in what is now Greenland. [1]

Contents

It is named after Errol Ivor White.

Classification

Whiteichthys was variably classified in the families Palaeoniscidae, Canobiidae or Whiteichthyidae. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2009-04-24.
  2. Schultze, Hans-Peter; Mickle, Kathryn E.; Poplin, Cecile; Hilton, Eric J.; Grande, Lance (2021). Handbook of Paleoichthyology, 8A. Actinopterygii I. Palaeoniscimorpha, Stem Neopterygii, Chondrostei. Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München. p. 299. ISBN   978-3-89937-272-4.